SHOULD YOU FEAR THE NEW CRIMINAL LAW?

he law gives us the right over our own bodies. The inverse is true too, even if only by degrees—someone who breaks the law (and is caught) seems to lose ownership over his or her body, and therefore can be confined in prison, or even sentenced to death. Ideally, this loss is not absolute, and the degrees depend on how retributive or reformist the law is. On April 6, Parliament passed a law that dredged up some of these fundamental questions of justice. The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, which replaced the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920, has put